Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the worldÕs great
cuisinesÑfrom the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the …

In this paper a process of negotiating identity among Polish migrants will be discussed in
relation to their food habits: consumption, preparation and celebration. Through the …

Roasting of green coffee beans is a key step in the coffee value chain where important
physical and chemical changes lead to the development of the characteristic roasted coffee …

During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and
starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately …

In Lithuania, the first country to secede from the Soviet Union, the term Soviet has been used
in public space to refer to the vanished Soviet empire and to experiences of colonization and …

In response to calls by scholars to deepen theoretical engagement in research on
Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), in this article we critically discuss and assess major …

Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province,
and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan …

Names: Polese, Abel, editor. Title: Identity and nation building in everyday post-socialist
life/edited by Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris, Oleksandra Seliverstova and Emilia Pawlusz …

Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary
Cubans carve out their own spaces for 'appropriate'acts of consumption, exchange, and …

Focusing on the experiences of Russian migrants to the United Kingdom, this book explores
the connection between migrations, homes and identities. It evaluates several approaches …